I believe Ken Tatro did a good job on the article he wrote, “Almost Unusuable.” I am, however, disappointed in the editorial comment by Editor Brendan Moran. Had you had all the facts, you would have known we were lied to as to what would be put in the ground.

The lease specifically stated nothing would go in the ground that would harm or threaten the environment. And the Chapman’s sincerely believed that. There is an amendment that protects innocent landowners from things like this.

Furthermore, I have been trying to fight the fact more paper by product is to be used in the closing process. That’s the very reason we are in this mess today.

Yet no one seems to care. They think it is great stuff, yet when I asked Randy McMullen to guarantee that the same thing will not happen 20-30 years from today – he would not. So who do you think is really looking out for our environment? Would you want this left to your children, like they are trying to force me to do?

We went into that lease in good faith, they did not. Read “The Paper Plantation” by Ralph Nader and you will get a better picture. I believe the mill knew at the time of that lease there was inorganic arsenic from mill sludge and they buried it anyway. Canada has deemed mill waste as toxic waste, and wants no spreading of it anywhere. I thought Maine was better as to environmental standards.

I am finding I am wrong when it comes to paper and politics in our state.

So please do not judge me until you have all your facts.

Donna Chapman

Windham